Welcome

This research project investigates the library of the early modern Danish book collector Karen Brahe. It has been generously funded by Augustinus Fonden.

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Output

Here you can see some of the project’s outputs.

Publications

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Duggan, Lucie, “Reading Women’s Work in the Karen Brahe Library,” chapter contribution to edited volume Feminized Work and the Labour of Literature, edited by Emily Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius. Edinburgh University Press (Forthcoming – 2025).

Duggan, Lucie, “Karen Brahe and Female Book Ownership in Denmark (1609-1736): Inheritance and Transmission,” chapter contribution to edited volume Corpus Feminae: Auctorialité et Matérialités des Écritures Féminines dans l’Europe Moderne (16e-18e siècles), edited by Aurélie Griffin, Guillaume Coatalen, and Marion de Lencquesaing. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses de l'Université Blaise Pascal (Forthcoming – 2024).

Duggan, Lucie, “Women’s Book Ownership in Early Modern Denmark: A Quantitative Approach” (article in preparation – 2024).

Selected Talks and Presentations

“Women's Book Ownership in Early Modern Denmark: A Quantitative Approach,” Renaissance Society of America, annual conference, March 2024.

“Brahes Barokke Bogklub: Kvinders Læsekultur i 1600-tallet,” Århundredets Festival Aarhus, March 2024.

“Travelling Texts: Women's Book Ownership in Early Modern Denmark,” international conference, Circulation of written heritage: Local production, global knowledge, Seville, Spain, December 2023.

“Women's Book Ownership and Readerly Identities in Early Modern Denmark,” Läskultur, materialitet & sociala praktiker, Löfstad Castle, Sweden, August 2023.

“Distant Reading a Seventeenth-Century Private Library.” Digital Models in Humanities Research, IT-vest Odense, October 2022.

“Reading Women,” Her Book: Women and Book Ownership in Early Modern Europe, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, June 2022.

Interview

with project partner Professor Anne-Marie Mai, editor of Nordic Women’s Literature, SDU (September 2022)

with Susanne Grønbech Kongpetsak, “Hvad læste kvinder i 1600-tallet?” Ny Viden SDU (March 2022)